Release readiness gate
Check tests, migrations, flags, approvals, rollback, and monitoring against the release plan.
What this workflow does
Check tests, migrations, flags, approvals, rollback, and monitoring against the release plan. It separates observed facts from inference, surfaces conflicting evidence, and delivers a review-ready finding set instead of an opaque answer.
What you gain
Known release gaps surface before deployment.
What the AI agent changes
How this worked before
Traditional automation could collect records, but a person still had to compare sources, resolve conflicts, and write the conclusion.
What the AI agent changes
The agent can plan a search, inspect multiple sources, distinguish facts from inference, and return a cited report.
Agent trigger
A release candidate is marked ready for production review.
Inputs
- Process context: release plan, pull requests, tests, migrations, flags, runbook, and monitoring
- Approved policies, ownership, and exception rules
Agent flow
- 1
Collect source material from the approved systems and record its timestamp.
- 2
Cross-check conflicting signals and separate facts from inference.
- 3
Prepare go, fix, or explicit-risk acceptance with evidence with citations, unknowns, and confidence.
- 4
Deliver the approved report and preserve its evidence set.
Human decisions
After step 3
The accountable process owner approves go, fix, or explicit-risk acceptance with evidence.
Outcome
- Tech-lead-approved release decision
- Evidence, exceptions, and audit trail
Guardrails
- Label inference separately from observed facts.
- Do not close the investigation while required sources are unavailable.
Risks and mitigations
Missing or stale evidence can produce a confident but incomplete finding.
Show source coverage, conflicts, timestamps, and unanswered questions.
Sources and evidence
Sources establish feasibility or impact. Not every metric comes from an identical implementation.
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